Cotton Planting Estimates Up from Last Year

Becky Sommer with the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service reports the initial cotton planting estimates for this year.

Growers intend to plant 12.2 million acres of all cotton across the United States, which is up 9 percent from the previous year.

Cotton producers in Georgia expect to plant an estimated 1.2 million acres, up 3 percent from the previous year.  Alabama forecasts a 4 percent increase in planting this year at 420,000 acres of cotton.  In Florida, the cotton planting forecast is set at 110,000 acres, a 21 percent increase from 2021.